Propositions Quotes

100 Propositions quotes by 82 unique authors

The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter. — Carl Gustav Hempel
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers… — Calvin Coolidge
Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories and parables; short… — Brian D. McLaren
Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions. — Charles Sanders Peirce
I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can… — Michael Polanyi
The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two numbers together. Is… — John Perry
The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made… — Samuel Johnson
It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover. — William Shakespeare
Take note, theologians, that in your desire to make matters of faith out of propositions relating to the fixity of sun and earth you run… — Galileo Galilei
The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of… — Virchand Gandhi
No doubt, there are those who believe that judges-and particularly dissenting judges-write to hear themselves say, as it were, I I I. And no doubt,… — William J. Brennan
The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there… — Thomas Huxley
General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate. — Wallace Stevens
On the one hand it is said that the aim and object of music is to excite emotions, i.e., pleasurable emotions; on the other hand,… — Eduard Hanslick
We have in our head something called story grammar. We see the world as a series of episodes rather than logical propositions... In our serious… — Daniel H. Pink
The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation… — Vladimir Lenin
The cabinet has no propositions to make, but orders to give. — Charles de Gaulle
Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that… — Alfred North Whitehead
It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private… — Germaine Greer
Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to… — Morris Raphael Cohen
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may… — Maimonides

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